Luxury Resort Could Be Built At Magic City Casino

A luxury resort could be coming to the Magic City Casino property, according to the Herald.

The resort at the 30-acre property could also have shopping centers and experience oriented attractions,  the CEO of the company that is in contract to buy the casino told the paper.

PCI Gaming, d/b/a Wind Creek Hospitality announced this week that it has an agreement to acquire the property. The company is a subsidiary of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.

The deal is expected to close later this Spring.

On Wednesday, the Florida Gaming Control Commission granted conditional approval to the sale.

The deal is rumored to be worth around $600 million, which could make it the most expensive gaming transaction in Florida’s history.

 

Magic City Casino is in the background, south of the Melreese golf course:

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anonymous
7 months ago

for all the gamblers – have at it

Anonymous
7 months ago

Will this shut up the gamblers?

Anonymous
7 months ago

this area will be red hot in a few years with this resort , the mixed project across the street and the soccer stadium a few blocks north

Miami Winning!
7 months ago

Perfect spot for a luxury casino resort, not in downtown. We can support this.

Michael Hernandez
7 months ago

If they were really smart,I’ll make it like the hard rock with live table games like black jack,make a concert venue so big bands and comics could play there,add names restaurants and a club that caters to the Spanish community and other nationalitys,u can have a great poker program like having wpt come there as well like they do at the hard rock having table games there in the heart of Spanish community they will make there money within four or five years

Anonymous
7 months ago

Luxury casino resorts are welcome anywhere, including downtown.

Anon
7 months ago

No they are not. Nowhere near the thriving city, must be outside of town or in way North Miamic like Miami Gardens.

Anonymous
7 months ago

It should be downtown close to mass transit.
This is no comparison to what Resorts World Miami proposed.

Gamblers Winning!
7 months ago

Love this location for the gamblers – I may even join from time to time if they can book some quality entertainment and acts. It’s a short uber ride from Brickell and Downtown.

Azarius
7 months ago

Metrorail going north and south Douglas would help traffic cause with the casino and games at the new stadium transit would definitely benefit

anonymous
7 months ago

if this development does get done and they have lots of residential units added it would make sense.

ilk
7 months ago

Agreed – I always thought a rail or mover line from the airport, down Douglas, turning on to Ponce de Leon, connecting into the Douglas St. rail station, and then ideally going down Grand Avenue to the center Grove made sense as far as collecting dense population/work centers. But I’m sure that community opposition to that would be unbearable.

Anonymous
7 months ago

It’s a proposed route for Metrorail, which is why the tracts protrude a little south from the Miami Airport Station platforms. Frankly, a much extension for the county to consider, as it’s more walkable and dense than north into an automobile-dependent area.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Extend Metromover? Metrorail is literally right there.

Anon
7 months ago

Whatever it is, I can’t imagine it being very tall. The casino is directly in the flight path of taking off and landing planes at MIA.

Anonymous
7 months ago

You might be thinking of the Beckham project. This is perpendicular to the runways and much further away.

peej
7 months ago

It is indeed perpendicular to the two main runways, but the 3rd diagonal runway’s flight path is directly above this site.

ParkingHater
7 months ago

I cannot look at this shot and not scream about what should’ve been the orange line extension to the soon to be stadium and now even a resort.

$&@#

Anonymous but Famous
7 months ago

A great addition to one of the most underdeveloped major streets in the city.

Anon
7 months ago

I didn’t know Miami had a casino – is it high end?

Azarius
7 months ago

Miami has about 4/5 casinos

Anon
7 months ago

Really? I know of the Hard Rock – what are the others?

Westchester Kid
7 months ago

Calder, The Miccosukee, Hialeah Park, Casino Miami and Magic city in Miami-Dade
Hard Rock, Big Easy, Dania, Gulfstream in Broward. There’s also a poker room in Florida city that I saw recently.

Anon
7 months ago

Never had any idea – is it similar to Foxwoods / Encore in the Northeast?

Anonymous
7 months ago

No. They are all crappy looking.

Michael Hernandez
7 months ago

One thing I would do is make it like the hard rock in Hollywood with black jack and other live table games, restaurants concerts poker like make it wpt come too magic city like they do in the hardrock they would make a killing if they r truly making a hotel

Michael Hernandez
7 months ago

I believe that poker room in Florida city is closed for a long while they weren’t making any money

BUILD BUILD IN THE URBAN CORE!
7 months ago

Casino Miami should follow their lead…. The site for Casino Miami is also steps from the Airport an within 10 min of Miami beach, Downtown/Edgewater and Doral. Central location for resort with casino and clubs.

Robin
7 months ago

Perfect for high end airport hotel.

Jeremey Howlett
7 months ago

What needs to be built on this site is the world’s biggest hostal living community. The metro rail can be easily extended into
The community. All the people that cannot afford to stay at hotels in Miami Beach in the very near future will need to stay here. With the thousands and thousands of newly rich seniors moving to South Florida and Miami Beach very soon, I expect a complete sellout of all housing stock. After this happens, there is going to be masses of people visiting their parents and grandparents more often, so space is going to be limited until they really start to pick up the pace of construction on building THENEXTMIAMI!!!!! Very soon, many young folks will be living in malls, airports, and warehouses until there’s enough housing stock for them. That’s why I’m ringing the alarm, you all better start hiring more people in the trades and get those luxury towers up. Remember guys, the south Florida real estate market is a worldwide housing market. Anytime anyone gets rich in another country they always want to move to America, and become a citizen. That’s, why all the foreigners get citizenship for investing in all the building projects in south Florida.

Anonymous
7 months ago

Yes. Very well thought out addition to this thread.